The 400 worst‐case severe environments for surface charging detected at Los Alamos National Laboratory satellites during the years of 1990–2005 as binned by the definitions of four criteria developed by Matéo‐Vélez et al. (2018,
Previously, Tsurutani and Lakhina (2014,
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- 10367453
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
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- Space Weather
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- 19
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- 2
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- National Science Foundation
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